Assistant Professor of Marketing

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National University, a private nonprofit leader among adult learners, seeks an Assistant Professor of Marketing for the department of Management and Marketing.  The Assistant Professor's primary responsibility will be to promote NU's mission "to deliver an exceptional student experience by providing superior programs and services that are relevant and result in meaningful learning."

Our strategic plan, has five interrelated priorities:

• Increase access to adult learners nationwide by offering a variety of programs asynchronously online.
• Reduce the costs to students and continue to do so until our most deserving students receive an education with no out-of-pocket costs. 
• Implement precision education as an operational strategy to improve student success.
• Build an infrastructure to support innovative instruction.
• Create a culture that attracts and retains top talent, including transparent communication and inclusion.

Our strategic plan emphasizes the priority to invest in retention and completion initiatives so that each student will realize his or her personal goals and contribute to the University's vision to "make positive contributions to the transformation of society." NU's approach to assuring student success is defined by precision education as an operational strategy, including assessment-led, adaptive instruction, holistic student support, and competency-based credentialing.

ROLE OF THE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING

The Assistant Professor delivers an exceptional student experience through teaching, scholarship, and service in support of the overall academic quality of departmental programs. As a champion of student success, this position innovates and collaborates within the University to deliver outstanding course content and academic programs to the diverse student population at National University. Full-time Professors may teach both undergraduate and graduate courses within a programmatic core discipline as assigned, and/or guide doctoral candidates through doctoral dissertation requirements (as Chair or committee member). This position also provides content expertise to the Dean in areas of Marketing. Primary responsibility is to engage students, offer excellent feedback, and inspire students to achieve course and program outcomes relevant to the core discipline. This position works closely with other faculty teaching in the discipline, Associate Director of Faculty Support and Development, Assistant Dean and Dean. This exempt position reports to the Dean as assigned.

• Teaching
  • Teach courses in online (asynchronous and/or synchronous), onsite, and hybrid modalities.
  • Provide exceptional student experience, from initial contact to degree completion and engagement for both undergraduate and graduate level students
  • Preparation of curricula and development and implementation of courses, student advising and feedback, capstone, dissertation and project mentoring and conducting independent studies.
  • Post and maintain office hours weekly (minimum of 4).
  • Respond to student contact within 24-36 hours.
  • Provide on-going content preparation and development of delivery modalities for adult learners.
  • Recommend suitable instructional resources.
  • Maintain innovative curriculum that reflects current subject matter, technological literacy, and current methodology in field.
  • Teach courses as assigned by Chair or Dean per policy. (Courses may be reassigned to provide a balanced workload.)
  • Support flexible and convenient courses and programs for lifelong learners.
  • Drive Teaching Through Engagement (TTE) in the Department

• • Give feedback to students is appropriate, meaningful, individualized, balanced and timely
  • Provide feedback to students that is developmental and forward thinking
  • Include multiple methods of engagement to create a positive learning environment that encourages motivation and persistence, maintaining frequent communication with students; offering opportunities for ongoing interaction to discuss feedback, addressing concerns, and plan; making accommodations to address learning styles by personalizing teaching and using appropriate tools or models of instruction
  • Leverage technology to engage students
• Scholarship
  • Maintains currency with the philosophical and andragogical developments in their field.
• Service
  • Provide service primarily to the program and department with some service at college, University or system level. Examples of service include but are not limited to:
    • Develop innovative curriculum and market relevant prog